This 'right' circumvents will of majority

State Senators Brent Steele, R-Bedford, and Carlin Yoder, R-Middlebury, seek to convince fellow legislators and citizens to support a legislative mandate (SJR 0007) that classifies the recreational pastime of hunting as a state constitutional right.

To garner additional support of this frivolous measure, constitutional protection would also be extended to farming.

Conveniently omitted from the senators' finely tuned press release, and consequently lacking from media reports, was any reference to the other harmful provision that mandates hunting to be the "preferred means of managing and controlling wildlife."

If adopted, and later approved by Indiana citizens, this provision will prevent local governments and communities from managing wildlife populations through nonlethal means.

Wildlife management techniques should be based on sound science and ecosystem balance - not predetermined by political maneuvers specifically designed to drown out future majority voices.

Democracy serves the will of the people. This proposed constitutional amendment completely undermines this fundamental concept.

Monopolizing legislators' time and taxpayer resources for the sole purpose of legislating minority interests on a foundational level should be rejected by all elected officials and citizens respectful of the democratic process.

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This 'right' circumvents will of majority

State Senators Brent Steele, R-Bedford, and Carlin Yoder, R-Middlebury, seek to convince fellow legislators and citizens to support a legislative mandate (SJR 0007) that classifies the recreational